UK extends hypocrisy to Olympics

June 24th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

The British media said officials from the Home Office, the Foreign Office and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport have decided in a joint meeting that General Mowaffak Joumaa should be denied a visa though a final decision rests with the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Western governments including officials in Britain accuse Syria of killing of civilians but the Syrian government says it is protecting them from terrorists, which are reportedly being trained and funded by foreign governments including London.

The British Foreign Office indicated earlier this month that the general could be refused entry on the ground of his links to Syrian president Bashar Assad and the Syrian army.

“Entry will also be refused where an individual’s presence would not be conducive to the public good. Where there is independent, reliable and credible evidence that an individual has committed human rights abuses, the individual will not normally be permitted to enter the UK,” the Foreign Office said.

However, a look at the recent guests of the British government reveals resort to human rights for denying entry visas is at least a grave exploitation of legitimate concerns for hypocritical political expediency if not a political propaganda against Bashar al-Assad’s government.

The British government is welcoming the son of Bahrain’s king Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad al-Khalifa who heads Bahrain’s Olympic committee in London for the Games.

This is while Sheikh Nasser is accused of torturing detainees during the Arab Spring and the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights says it has submitted documents proving the Bahraini prince’s violations of human right to the British Prime Minister David Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague.

“[Sheikh Nasser launched] a punitive campaign to repress Bahraini athletes who had demonstrated their support (for) the peaceful pro-democracy movement,” the ECCHR said.

“Following his directives more than 150 professional athletes, coaches and referees were subjected to arbitrary arrests, night raids, detention, abuse and torture by electric cables and other means,” the ECCHR added.

Sheikh Nasser is not the only proof for the hypocrisy of the British government in dealing with human rights and its paradox of embracing obvious human rights abusers while rejecting others based on unfounded claims.

Nawaf Faisal Fahd Abdulaziz, who heads the Saudi Olympic Committee is yet another example.

Nawaf, who is currently the president general of Saudi Youth Welfare, that is the Saudi Ministry of Youth and Sport, is a cabinet minister of the Saudi government, which has been leading the brutal crackdown on Bahraini pro-democracy protests.

Saudi Arabia is also a notorious abuser of women’s rights and speaking of Olympics, Saudi women have been banned from participation in international sport, as has always been the case.

The only Saudi woman probably taking part in the Games will be equestrian Dalma Rushdi Malhas who cannot tag along with the official national team and must go it alone, independent from the rest of the team.

All that is happening under the nose of Nawaf and yet there are no complaints from London officials.

Apart from Nawaf and Sheikh Nasser, London is also hosting an entourage of human-rights-abusers-now-Olympic-heads including those from Egypt, Yemen and Jordan.

Mahmoud Ahmed Ali who chairs the Egyptian Olympic Committee is one of the Egyptian army generals who have been trying to derail the country’s democratic elections sparking repeated public demonstrations in the now-famed al-Tahrir square in Cairo.

Yemen’s Olympic chief, Abdel Rahman al-Akwa, was a cabinet minister of deposed president Ali Abdulalh Saleh when his regime led a savage crushing of anti-government uprising that killed thousands of people.

The Jordanian Olympic chief, Feisal Al Hussein, is also an army general and the brother of Jordan’s ruler Abdullah, whose regime followed in the steps of other Arab dictatorships in the region who are sending Olympic officials to a warm welcome in London.

With British officials set to welcome a host of people with a human-rights past or present, one tends to remember the ECCHR’s warning to London against applying “politically-driven double standards” to Olympic officials.

AMR/HE